Pulleyblank, Edwin G.

Central Asia and non-Chinese peoples of ancient China/ Edwin G. Pulleyblank. - Burlington: Ashgate, c2002. - xii, 312 ; 24 cm. - Varioum collected studies series, 731. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface;
The date of the StaA"l-Holstein Roll;
Some remarks on the Toquzoghuz problem;
Chinese evidence for the date of Kaniska;
The Chinese and their neighbors in prehistoric and early historic times;
Ji Hu: indigenous inhabitants of Shaanbei and Western Shanxi;
Zou and Lu and the sinification of Shandong;
The "High Carts": a Turkish speaking people before the TA1/4rks;
The name of the Kirghiz;
Chinese and Indo-Europeans;
The Wu-sun and Sakas and the YA1/4eh-Chih migration;
Han China in Central Asia;
Why Tocharians?;
Early contacts between Indo-Europeans and Chinese;
Central Asia at the dawn of history;
Index.

0860788598 (alk. paper)


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